The well written narrative essay of George Orwell (shooting An Elephant) and Salvation of Langston Hughes, dealing with their life story and experience show the set of qualities that make each author distinctive. However, the authors used a particular way to narrate their story making them alive. So this particular way used by each of them let make a critical comparison and contrast analysis related to each author personality.

Langston Hughes toward Salvation used an ironic tone to narrate his story. Some expressions showed the hidden way to say and express thoughts like “bring the young lamb to the fold” express the conversion of young people to Jesus. Lingston Hughes beliefs are based on real and tangible things, he doesn’t believe without seeing thing, experiencing them. He did wait for long time for Jesus to appear to him, talk to him as we communicate with each other. Even though he already heard great many old people say Jesus came into their life, he did not believe until it experience that. Lingston was sensible to the preaching, he listen carefully and analyze. He don’t do things because everybody is doing that he will be convinced before doing it. Many people knelt on the mourners bench assuming that Jesus appeared to them but Lingstone kept waiting for his turn. At a first moment he don’t let himself influence by whatever happens but by the time he finishes to surround, he felt ashamed to see himself as an exception among a community. He can hold everything up so long. Even though he did not believe he goes along with the crowd, the way to do not see yourself as an exception. He agree with a community but he do regret for his weakness to accept things, to be involuntary convince, influence by the majority people without being persuade.

George Orwell in Shooting An Elephant on the other hand express his thoughts Clearly in sadistic way. The fact that he was hate by numbers of people has not been a reason...

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“Shooting an Elephant“: Orwell’s combat against imperialism
“Shooting an Elephant” is an essay written by George Orwell, first published in the journal New Writing in 1936. In this essay, the author tells his own story about when he was working as a police officer for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma.
His five years of experience in the Indian Imperial Police allowed him to have a good understanding of what exactly the “real nature of Imperialism” is.
As an anti-imperialist writer, the author explains his hatred and guilt toward the arrogant system that cause him to denounce British Imperialism by demonstrating the incompatible relationship between the powerful Colonizer and the powerless Colonized. He feels like a victim of both the natives’ actions and the system of Imperialism itself.
It is important to know the author’s political view about British Imperialism to understand his critique. Even though he worked several years in Burma for the Indian Imperial Police, he has never abandoned anti-imperialism, which corresponds to a movement that is opposed to any form of colonialism. For instance, it could be an opposition to wars or the expansion of a country’s territory. In his previous work “Burmese Days”, which also tells Orwell’s story in Burma, the author has already mentioned anti-imperialism, which is the main message that he wanted to offer to the readers (Moosavinia...

...George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”
“Shooting an Elephant” is an essay written by George Orwell and published in 1936 (Orwell 66). Orwell was born June 25, 1903, as Eric Arthur Blair and passed away January 21, 1950, in India (“George Orwell Biography”). Orwell was known for his journals, novels, and essays published about his own political views (“George Orwell Biography”). Orwell traveled to Burma after not doing good enough in school to earn a scholarship and decided to join the imperial police (Orwell 66). While on duty one day, Orwell received a call that a rampaging elephant was on the loose that had killed a man and destroyed a hut (Orwell 67). Once Orwell found the elephant calm in a field he was faced with a decision of whether to kill the elephant or let it be (Orwell 69). Orwell killed the elephant for the safety of himself and out of pressure from the Burmese standing behind him (Orwell 70). While Orwell contemplated shooting the elephant he knew out of the town he was the only one able to have a weapon to kill the elephant (Orwell 67). The Burmese weren’t allowed to have weapons because the British Empire outlawed them to prevent the Burmese from revolting. The British Empire didn’t want the Burmese to over power them and revolt because they wanted to maintain power imperialism. The British Empire needed...

...In the essay “Shooting an Elephant”, George Orwell narrates his experience serving as a sub-divisional police officer for the British Empire in Moulmein, Burma. Orwell uses metaphors to represent his feelings on imperialism, intimate struggles with his own personal morals, and his call of duty to his country.
Orwell (1936) begins the story, “I was hated by large numbers of people”. According to Orwell, the people unfairly hated him simply because he was an officer of the law they passively tried to defy. “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make my job impossible” (Orwell, 1936). In the essay, Orwell describes his struggles with imperialism and proving his real power and loyal dignity to the Burmese people. He goes on to say (1936), “For at that time I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better. Theoretically — and secretly, of course — I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British”.
Orwell is called upon to kill a tame elephant that has escaped due to “must” or a state of frenzied sexual arousal. The animal is running wild among the village and ravaging the bazaar. Orwell uses the elephant, a very powerful and stately animal, as a metaphor for the British Empire and the power they represent....

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First, Orwell hesitates several times before he takes aim at the elephant. It was never his will to kill the elephant. Orwell states, “ I had no intention of shooting the elephant- I had merely sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary- and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you.” Also when he saw the elephant his first reaction was that it should not be shot. Orwell states, “As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him.” (Orwell, 186) He states that the...

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The relationship between Orwell and the Burmese in George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant,” is a complex relationship filled with hatred. Regardless of Orwell's personal morals and beliefs on imperialism, he still upholds the duties of his job and has desire to show he is not in any shape or form inferior to any Burman, while the Burmese show nothing but ridicule and loathe for Orwell. This relationship shared between Orwell and the Burmese is a direct result of imperialism, showing both the fight and the ignorance of the captors and the captives.
Orwell sympathizes with the situation that has developed in Burma, but he also finds the Burmese people to be “evil spirited little beasts” (282) who made his job unbearable. Being a police officer in Burma, and employed by the British Empire, it is a strenuous task for Orwell: a job he describes that he “hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear” (281). He encounters hostility towards him and is constantly“being baited whenever it seemed safe to do so” (281) and ridiculed by the Burmese. The Burmese respond to Orwell in this negative way solely because he is affiliated with the British Empire – though Orwell describes he “was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors” (281). The Burmese do not look past his uniform and go as far as to laugh at the expense of Orwell, yet they find themselves...

...The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England's middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was now determined to become a writer, so at the brink of poverty he began to pay close attention to social outcasts and laborers. This led him to write Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) during the Spanish Civil War. He embodied his hate for totalitarian system in his book Animal Farm (1945). George Orwell fell to the disease of tuberculosis at forty-seven, but not before he released many works. He wrote six novels, three documentary works, over seven hundred reviews and newspaper articles, and a volume of essays (1149). This particular story was very interesting and found it to hold a lot of truth. Shooting an Elephant is about an English man that was a police officer in Burman, who was hated for his race and felt it almost impossible to do his job. He had to deal with a lot of hatred and disrespect, but yet he was expected to do what the town's people asked of him when they asked. When the elephant got...

...Shooting an elephant written by George Orwell brings to light the evil of imperialism. Being a police officer in the lower Burma, Orwell hated his job. The reason was because the people in Burma ridiculed, insulted and laughed at him whenever they felt safe to do so. Orwell opposed imperialism, and thus was able to feel the hatred of the people of Burma, but still resented them.
The story starts with Orwell receiving a phone call about a tameelephant destroying bazaar. He carried with him an old rifle in order to scare off the elephant. After questioning a couple of Burmans he came to know that the tame elephant doesn’t usually go wild but it’s in the ‘must’ period that it becomes intensely violent. Going further ahead down the road he comes across a corpse of a Burmese man trampled by the elephant. The situation elevated from there he ordered for an elephant rifle –still not with the aim of shooting it-from a friend’s house along with five cartridges. Orwell finds the “wild” elephant in a very peaceful manner standing in a field. The crowd seeing the rifle followed him and started cheering expecting him to shoot the elephant. He repeatedly kept mentioning that he did not want to shoot the elephant. Orwell was in a position that if he did not fulfill the expectation of the crowd he would be mocked and ridiculed and...

...George Charalambous
03/05/2013
English 1030
Research Paper
'' If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism now" according to Vladimir Lenin. George Orwell immediately begins the essay ''Shooting an Elephant" by claiming his perspective on British Imperialism, and how this imperialism affected himself, his empire, and the Burma people. Though George Orwell is a British officer himself at the time in Burma , he claims that he is fully against the oppressors , who at the time are the British. His personal experience, that he writes about with the elephant is metaphorical to imperialism and how he views the social issue. The author is the protagonist of the story and he shows the feelings toward the British Imperialism and Britain's justification for their actions in taking over Burma. Nowadays imperialism, transformed to capitalism and a lot of the characteristics are the same.
Firstly, if we take a look to George Orwell's life he was born in 1903 in Bengal, in the British Colony of India, where his dad was working. His mother though was the one that brought him to England at the age of one. While he was in primary school, and other greater levels his teachers made clear that he was disliked by some of them. He joined the imperial police in India, Burma after finishing...